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Posted: **Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:33 pm**

Queensryche does an album of cover tunes.

They've done a cover song before... they took the hippie out of "Scarborough Fair" and added a nice edge to it.

I bought this album because I'm a big Ryche fan in spite of their albums from the last 10 years, and on the strength of that other cover. I figured if that even if they couldn't INVENT hard stuff any more, maybe they could still take other peeps' stuff and metal it up.

This album is hit and miss.

There's a few tunes I've never heard of at all, but of the 7 or so I know...

Well, hit and miss. The worst thing is that the singer, Geoff Tate, used to have amazing pipes... listen to "Silent Lucidity" some time. But now, about 17 years after Silent Lucidity, he can't even touch Freddie Mercury at a point when Freddie was dieing of AIDS.

He does a passable Dio impersonation, though.

If you're a fan, buy this album. If not, it isn't going to be forging into any new musical territory for you.

Find their version of "Scarborough Fair," though.

Posted: **Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:35 pm**

Have had this album on repeat all day... I dig "Bullet the Blue Sky."

Of course I may have heard the original once in my life, so not a lot of preconceived notions about the song.

"Synchronicity II" is also ok, but again, Geoff-now can't touch Sting when he was in his prime, so it's a little weak.

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Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:36 pm**

Sting can't touch Sting in his prime, anymore. Saw him try to do "Roxanne" about ten years back. Not bad, but not anywhere near the key on the album.

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